Turbid Light

"That person is Lin Ran."

That person can only be Lin Ran.

When Xun Muke was circling around Lin Ran at the Municipal Bureau, he had a vague feeling that there was something unusual between the two. The problem did not lie with Xun Muke, who had superb acting skills, but with Lin Ran. Lin Ran looked at her with an unnaturally cherishing look, as if he was looking at a lover who was about to disappear, and every look meant one less time.

"You guessed right, I saw Lin Ran." The setting sun illuminated her pale face. "Do you know how surprised I was when I saw him? I thought he was back. Every one of his facial features, nose, eyes, eyebrows, teardrop mole, were so similar! Do you know how happy I was? But when he spoke, his voice was completely different. Do you know how devastated I was?"

"He begged me to save him! Begged me to take him off the island! Actually, I would have done the same thing even without him asking. I wouldn't have let him stay on the floating island, but I was too weak at the time and couldn't bring everyone back. There was a girl named Fang Junwen among them. They had colluded to expose this place. Lin Ran begged me, and I agreed, but the plan was exposed, and the girl's life was lost in vain. I almost didn't make it back. After that, the floating island was under full martial law, and I never went back."

"The more I spent time with him, the more I could sense the difference between him and Ji Xiangyang. I began to distance myself from him and portray myself as a fan in the audience. He was an unattainable idol, and it felt better to watch him through the screen."

Lin Ran couldn't get rid of "Dream Butterfly" and could only survive. Xun Muke, as a financial sponsor, invested a lot of money in him. He was very smart and used these investments to climb to the position of administrator of Area A.

During this period, Lin Ran submitted a written confession and video materials to Liang Qiuchen, hoping to expose the crimes of Fudao, but the materials were returned intact. Xun Muke had a hunch that something was wrong within the Municipal Bureau, so he chose to take up a position in Qu'an City, hundreds of kilometers away from home, upon graduation. He thought he could keep an eye on Liang Qiuchen at the Municipal Bureau, but it ended up being a meeting between the three of them, and no one saw the former captain.

"Then when did you know that Ji Xiangyang was dead?"

"Actually... I have no evidence to prove that Xu Mingwei killed him."

Xun Muke never forgot her mission every day at the Municipal Bureau. She searched every corner of the Municipal Bureau but could not find any trace of Ji Xiangyang. The few Song-style characters on the system were not enough for her to piece together the truth, so she set her sights on the intern who came with Ji Xiangyang.

The internship was arranged by the school. There were two other boys with Ji Xiangyang. One was a front-line worker like him, and the other was a clerk with connections in his family. He was only responsible for keeping records. After the internship, the two left Jianan Province quickly. Xun Muke searched for many months and finally found one of them.

The day for the visit was not chosen well. It was the beginning of the new year. After receiving the news, Xun Muke did not stay for a moment and drove to Fuchun County, more than 700 kilometers away.

The further north she went, the colder it got, but she didn't care whether it was cold or not. She drove all the way to Fuchun and met him in person.

Qian Fuyou had white hair when he was less than 30 years old. The two looked at each other in bewilderment. Qian Fuyou's relatives were also sitting in the living room. The atmosphere was a bit awkward. Xun Muke claimed to be a former colleague and asked the person to leave.

"Actually, I've been waiting for someone to ask about this."

After graduation, Qian Fuyou did not work as a criminal police officer, but has been working in an Internet cafe.

"That period really left a deep shadow on me. Perhaps before leaving school, everyone has fantasies about the police profession, idealistic to the extreme. But once you enter this profession, you realize that where there are people, there is filth. The consequences of standing up for justice are something many people cannot afford."

The scattered white hair and his dejected tone gradually confirmed Xun Muke's worst thoughts.

Qian Fuyou suddenly raised his head, his eyes empty, "He's dead, you can't find him."

*

When Qian Fuyou first arrived in Qu'an City, he was not used to the climate of Jianan Province and was always sick. As his roommate, Ji Xiangyang took good care of him. They were supposed to work together, but if he saw that he was not feeling well, he would let him go back and rest while he completed the remaining tasks.

He, Ji Xiangyang and Gu Chusheng are all Liang Qiuchen's apprentices. Although they are called apprentices, they actually do odd jobs.

Liang Qiuchen doesn't like others to interfere in his cases, and his subordinates can only obey orders. Qian Fuyou once complained privately that he was an extremely rigid and conceited person.

Originally, as interns, they only needed to be obedient, not interfere with the case, and be content to be a water pourer so that they could graduate successfully, but Ji Xiangyang was a stickler for matters of the heart.

He discovered suspicious points in the case and privately questioned Liang Qiuchen. The other party was very angry and denounced him as an inexperienced rookie. Ji Xiangyang was targeted and no one in the serious crime team liked him.

"I couldn't stand the climate in Jianan Province at the time, so I asked for leave and went back home for a few days. During those few days, something happened that I could never have imagined in my life."

After Qian Fuyou came back, he brought local specialties to everyone in the Municipal Bureau. It was supposed to be a happy moment, but he noticed Ji Xiangyang's sad face. He asked him what he was thinking about, and Ji Xiangyang said mysteriously that he would tell him in the evening.

He trusted Ji Xiangyang very much and was happy to be friends with him, so when Ji Xiangyang took him out, he went with him without hesitation.

They saw a truck followed by several cars, connecting in a deserted alley. Many young and beautiful women got out of the cars, and the corresponding nurses and doctors pushed bed after bed of patients onto the truck. The people were neatly arranged like goods on a shelf, and then transported out.

At first, Ji Xiangyang suspected they were involved in organ trafficking, but it wasn't until he met a female patient at the hospital that he realized they were more than just trafficking. This patient's death was connected to a case Liang Qiucheng was investigating. Despite this clear clue, Liang Qiucheng never contacted her, instead ruling the case an accidental death.

"The Guangfeng Hospital pregnant woman's death case was a sensational case. Liang Qiucheng was responsible. The deceased was a female senior student. The female patient Ji Xiangyang tracked down was a close friend of the deceased. They were both engaged in the surrogacy industry, making money by selling eggs. The deceased was stabbed and died on the spot from excessive blood loss just as the transaction was about to be completed. This case is neither big nor small."

"The victim was attacked by a mentally ill patient, who, like them, had previously engaged in egg trafficking. These were all obvious suspicious points, but Liang Qiucheng ignored them, ruling the case simply as accidental homicide. Because the killer was mentally ill, he ultimately didn't carry out the sentence, only committing her to a mental hospital. The victim's parents, upon learning of the verdict, could not accept it and traveled all the way from another province to demand an explanation from the Public Security Bureau. Liang Qiucheng ignored all of this."

Qian Fuyou's dissatisfaction with Liang Qiuchen today is not just the same as before, but has risen to hatred and contempt. He cannot imagine that the captain of one of the core teams of the Public Security Bureau in a provincial capital city would be such a person!

"There's a suspicious point in the case, and Ji Xiangyang refuses to let it go. Liang Qiucheng noticed his actions, and Liang Qiucheng talked to him more than once. I guess he was probably trying to get him to mind his own business."

Ji Xiangyang ignored Liang Qiuchen's warning and continued to investigate the truth. Unexpectedly, he was able to follow the clues and discover the leader behind this industry.

Mingzhu Clothing is in danger and Xu Mingwei's position as chairman is about to be lost. For this reason, he tried every possible means and finally he invested in a black industry.

Someone handed him a fire, and he took it, so he invested in building the "Ren Ai" Children's Playground, along with an underground mother and baby base.

A red line grew out of the child running happily upstairs, connecting to the back of the woman screaming downstairs, constantly absorbing nutrients to nourish the paradise.

"Some people from the upper class will also visit the park. There are special people to receive them and take them to the underground base to select the mother/body when necessary." Ji Xiangyang told him this horrifying scene. He saw the heartache in Ji Xiangyang's eyes, and he felt uncomfortable too.

As he spoke, Qian Fuyou became angry and said with gritted teeth what Ji Xiangyang didn't have the chance to say.

"Surrogacy, regardless of the purpose, should not exist. Regardless of whether or not there's a fee, or how much, selling one's body for money is unacceptable. Once someone crosses the line and gets involved, the uterus becomes a commodity, and wealthy individuals are willing to pay a higher price for a more valuable uterus, perhaps using factors like education or appearance as a factor. If this were to happen, women would have no choice at all. Whether the other party wants it or not, they would be forced to endure harm, and afterward, they would only receive a seemingly reasonable response: 'Didn't I pay you?'"

"Money isn't everything, nor should it be. If the uterus is commercialized, what will be commercialized next? An organ? A life? Or even emotions? People are actually quite scary. When profits exceed 300 percent, they lose their humanity."

So Qian Fuyou really wanted to know how much Liang Qiuchen had obtained that was enough for him to give up his entire life?